Maria Montessori stood before a crowd of 60 underprivileged children, her students. It was January 6, 1907, and the 36-year-old educator was opening her first school: the Casa dei Bambini, or ...

A 1-year-old girl has died weeks after a car crashed through the fence of a Montessori preschool in Texas, killing a teacher and sending five children to the hospital, family members and deputies said ...